Building population models for large-scale neural recordings: Opportunities and pitfalls

C Hurwitz, N Kudryashova, A Onken… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern recording technologies now enable simultaneous recording from large numbers of
neurons. This has driven the development of new statistical models for analyzing and …

Copula flows for synthetic data generation

S Kamthe, S Assefa, M Deisenroth - arxiv preprint arxiv:2101.00598, 2021 - arxiv.org
The ability to generate high-fidelity synthetic data is crucial when available (real) data is
limited or where privacy and data protection standards allow only for limited use of the given …

Information estimation using nonparametric copulas

H Safaai, A Onken, CD Harvey, S Panzeri - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Estimation of mutual information between random variables has become crucial in a range
of fields, from physics to neuroscience to finance. Estimating information accurately over a …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven dynamic treatment planning for chronic diseases

C Naumzik, S Feuerriegel, AM Nielsen - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to deliver effective care, health management must consider the distinctive
trajectories of chronic diseases. These diseases recurrently undergo acute, unstable, and …

D-vine quantile regression with discrete variables

N Schallhorn, D Kraus, T Nagler, C Czado - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Quantile regression, the prediction of conditional quantiles, finds applications in various
fields. Often, some or all of the variables are discrete. The authors propose two new quantile …

Multivariate fire risk models using copula regression in Kalimantan, Indonesia

MK Najib, S Nurdiati, A Sopaheluwakan - Natural Hazards, 2022 - Springer
Forest fires have become a national issue yearly and elicited serious attention from the
government and researchers in Indonesia. Copula-based joint distribution can construct a …

Neural system identification with spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization

S Jia, Z Yu, A Onken, Y Tian, T Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neuronal circuits formed in the brain are complex with intricate connection patterns. Such
complexity is also observed in the retina with a relatively simple neuronal circuit. A retinal …

Predicting synchronous firing of large neural populations from sequential recordings

O Sorochynskyi, S Deny, O Marre… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
A major goal in neuroscience is to understand how populations of neurons code for stimuli
or actions. While the number of neurons that can be recorded simultaneously is increasing …

Generating synthetic data with the nearest neighbors algorithm

AF Kalay - arxiv preprint arxiv:2210.00884, 2022 - arxiv.org
The $ k $ nearest neighbor algorithm ($ k $ NN) is one of the most popular nonparametric
methods used for various purposes, such as treatment effect estimation, missing value …

Mixed vine copula flows for flexible modeling of neural dependencies

L Mitskopoulos, T Amvrosiadis, A Onken - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recordings of complex neural population responses provide a unique opportunity for
advancing our understanding of neural information processing at multiple scales and …